bgr_891837 - ACHAEAN LEAGUE - SICYON Hemidrachme
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Type : Hemidrachme
Date: c. 196-146 AC.
Mint name / Town : Sicyone, Sikyonie
Metal : silver
Diameter : 15,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 2,11 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Flan mince, centré. Jolie colombe. Usure régulière. Patine grise
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse description : Colombe volant à gauche.
Reverse
Reverse description : Grand sigma dans les restes d’un carré creux entouré de légendes.
Commentary
Ce type semble plus rare que ne le laisse supposer les ouvrages généraux.
Historical background
ACHAEAN LEAGUE - SICYON
(II - I century BC)
Sicyone, at the mouth of the Isthmus of Corinth in the Peloponnese, was the smallest political entity in this region with Phlius which it touched. Landlocked between Achaia and Argolis, it had been described by Homer in the Iliad as having been part of the kingdom of Agamemnon. We have little information on the history of the city before the end of the Persian Wars except that the region was often devastated by the Athenians, in particular under Pericles in 454 BC, according to E. Babelon. Coinage would only begin to become important after the end of the Peloponnesian War in 404 BC. After the First Macedonian War, Sicyon entered the Achaean League. The latter was dissolved in 146 BC after the fall and destruction of Corinth and the final enslavement of Greece.
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